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French authors, publishers sue Meta in landmark AI copyright suit
Read more: French authors, publishers sue Meta in landmark AI copyright suitThe lawsuit is necessary to protect French authors and publishers from AI which “plunders their works and cultural heritage” to train itself, three of the country’s largest author and publisher trade associations have stated.
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European Commission’s third draft of General-Purpose AI Code of Practice: finer KPIs but ‘still risks undermining the EU’s digital competitiveness’
Read more: European Commission’s third draft of General-Purpose AI Code of Practice: finer KPIs but ‘still risks undermining the EU’s digital competitiveness’The third and final draft, ahead of expected publication in May, has more specific guidelines on copyright compliance, including text and data mining – but those obligations could “threaten trade secrets”, CCIA Europe has said.
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UK antitrust authority CMA finds OpenAI is indeed not controlled by Microsoft, closes “maybe merger” inquiry after more than a year
Read more: UK antitrust authority CMA finds OpenAI is indeed not controlled by Microsoft, closes “maybe merger” inquiry after more than a yearThe UK’s competition watch dog has finally found that Microsoft indeed has not acquired OpenAI, and therefore closed its merger investigation.
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Musk request for preliminary injunction against OpenAI denied in Northern District of California
Read more: Musk request for preliminary injunction against OpenAI denied in Northern District of CaliforniaElon Musk, Shivon Zillis and xAI’s attempt to stop OpenAI from converting to a for-profit entity has been denied by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers after the plaintiffs failed to meet their burden of proof. However, the court is prepared to offer an expedited schedule on the “core claims driving their litigation” based on the more…
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UK government’s strategic steer to Competition & Markets Authority: stakeholders have until Thursday morning to comment
Read more: UK government’s strategic steer to Competition & Markets Authority: stakeholders have until Thursday morning to commentContext: The UK Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) told newspaper The Guardian last month that her agency does not always “need to have a seat at the table” when there’s a global competition case. While she does not see tension between the government’s pro-growth agenda and her agency’s competition enforcement, she acknowledged that “where [they]…
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Amazon and Microsoft tell UK competition watchdog that there is no separate market for cloud services used to power AI
Read more: Amazon and Microsoft tell UK competition watchdog that there is no separate market for cloud services used to power AIAmazon and Microsoft tell the UK’s antitrust regulator that the use of cloud services for AI purposes does not constitute a separate market.
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Anthropic “blindsided” by proposed U.S. Google AI investment ban, seeks to participate in DOJ antitrust suit
Read more: Anthropic “blindsided” by proposed U.S. Google AI investment ban, seeks to participate in DOJ antitrust suitForcing Google to divest its investment in AI firms could seriously impact Anthropic’s ability to develop new products and remain competitive in the tight race at the AI frontier, Anthropic has complained.
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Paris AI Action Summit made divisions between major powers’ approaches “even clearer”: EU AI governance consultant Valéria Silva
Read more: Paris AI Action Summit made divisions between major powers’ approaches “even clearer”: EU AI governance consultant Valéria SilvaThe Paris AI Action Summit confirmed the “patchwork” of divergent approaches major global economies are taking in AI regulation, making it hard to achieve the coordinated global approach needed to properly manage the technology, Mrs. Silva tells ai fray in an exclusive interview.